On March 11, 2011 Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, Daniel Ruben, wrote the following article:
A House panel will conduct a hearing on TSA screenings Wednesday, and a star witness is expected to be an Alaska state representative whose prosthetic breast set off alarms and repeatedly led to "humiliating" pat-downs.
Sharon Cissna, a Democratic state representative from Anchorage, has been invited to testify before the House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee's national security subcommittee about her ordeals at security checkpoints. Cissna's prosthesis triggered an alert on a full-body scanner in the fall and again last month in Seattle.
The subcommittee is to examine the effectiveness and safety of imaging technology and consider privacy concerns. The hearing was prompted in part by two 2010 Daniel Rubin columns in The Inquirer about searches at Philadelphia International Airport that U.S. Rep.Darrell Issa (R., Calif.) cited in a letter last March to Janet Napolitano, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. One column reported the complaints of the father of a disabled 4-year-old boy who was made to walk through metal detectors without leg braces. The other told of a college student who was accused of packing a suspicious white powder,only to hear from the TSA employee that he was kidding. The worker was fired.
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